Chris Ofili's Long-Overdue Retrospective at the New Museum Is NYC's Comeback of the Year

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New Museum of Contemporary Art

235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

Category: Museums

Region: East Village

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"Chris Ofili: Night and Day"
New Museum
235 Bowery
212-219-1222, newmuseum.org
Through January 25, 2015

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El Greco, Les Fauves, Gauguin, Picasso's Blue Period, late Matisse, German Expressionism, Yves Klein, Romare Bearden, Robert Rauschenberg. Like lessons learned during Giuliani-time, this artist train is not in vain, but rather marks stages in the development of a painter who, as this retrospective amply demonstrates, became a modern master. Any remaining Ofili detractors ought to have their eyes examined.